23 March 2020
OneWeb launches 34 more satellites amid bankruptcy concerns
... it faces stiff competition from competitors such as Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink megaconstellation and Jeff Bezos’s Project Kuiper...the end of the fourth quarter of 2021. Conversely, Elon Musk has just boosted his Starlink mega-constellation to 360 ...
13 November 2020
NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 mission gets ready for launch tomorrow
..., test, and fly the first commercial human spaceflight system in history to be certified by NASA,” said SpaceX boss Elon Musk. “This is a great honor that inspires confidence in our endeavour to return to the Moon, travel to Mars, and ultimately...
27 April 2020
SpaceX's first full-scale Starship passes key test
Elon Musk’s Starship SN4, which the entrepreneur hopes will one day lead... the test itself as opposed to any material problems with the Starship build, said Musk. SpaceX's Starship SN2 has been the only prototype to pass cryogenic proof testing, ...
20 January 2021
SpaceX buys two oil rigs to use as floating Starship launchpads
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has bought two deepwater oil rigs near to the .... Once complete, Starship could launch as many as 100 people at a time, an achievement Musk thinks could be attainable about six years from now, possibly earlier. “If we get lucky, ...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... first colonisers of Mars. This idea is being put forward by Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and the guru of the Space 2.0 ... commercial potential on Earth. An example of this is that Elon Musk founded not only the SpaceX company, but also the Tesla ...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... the recent attempt from SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), a commercial launch provider created by Paypal’s founder Elon Musk, to land their heavy Falcon 9 first stage on a custom-build ocean platform3? By re-using the first stage...
